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Cab Calloway (1907–1994) was the zootiest of mid-twentieth-century jazz masters, best remembered now for his decades of shows at the Cotton Club and touring when he wasn’t playing…

All dictionaries start in the imagination. One could sit at a screen and key in a list of words at random, defining them on impulse rather than in some principled way. Usually…

Welcome to the first spotlight of the Lilly Library’s Mechanical Puzzle blog series, written by Andrew Rhoda, the Lilly Library’s Curator of Puzzles! In the first post in this…

Rare Books Cataloger Lindsay Weaver gives us a glimpse into the lives of everyday folk of the American frontier– through an 1830s letter from the collections of the Lilly Library…

Jeri Taylor, scriptwriter and producer of many popular television shows, including Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager passed away on October 24, 2024 at the age…

Charles Dickens is remembered by most of the world as a great novelist and a key figure in Victorian England at its height and generally thought of as a nearly mythic…

Having recently written posts about books of one sort or another, I had in mind writing about word games in the Kripke Collection, but they weren’t on the table where I’d first…

I pulled out what looked ugly but turned out to be a gem — what sort of gem, I admit I don’t know, but that element of surprise, even confusion, is what unpacking the Kripke…

Welcome to the first part of a puzzlingly exciting new series of blog posts, written by Andrew Rhoda, the Lilly Library’s Curator of Puzzles! Here at the Lilly Library, we have the…

Curatorial assistant Elizabeth Arterberry explores the exciting world of diseases, geography, and early medical history! Many of the entries that comprise J.K. Lilly’s collection…